چکیده

The past decade has seen a significant amount of research on the role of task planning as a means for improving learners’ L2 speech. This study was an attempt to investigate the effects of strategic and unpressured within-task planning on Iranian EFL learners’ oral performance. The participants were 60 male and female intermediate EFL learners chosen from an English language institute whose homogeneity was determined through administering an Oxford Placement Test (OPT). In this quasi-experimental study, the participants were assigned to two groups with each planning condition consisting of 30 EFL learners. In group one, the participants were asked to perform the task under unpressured online planning condition. In group two, language learners were required to complete the task under strategic planning condition. The pre and post-test were based on story- telling narratives tasks followed with a 15-minute silent movie. The performances were recorded and transcribed to measure the fluency, accuracy and complexity of speech production. T-Test and one-way ANCOVA were employed as the statistical means of analysis. The results showed that pre-task strategic planning and within-task planning had a positive effect on learner’s oral production, showing that planning time provided an opportunity for learners to be able to produce more fluent, accurate, and complex language. Moreover, it was concluded that the participants in the strategic planning group (STPG) significantly outperformed the participants in unpressured within-task-planning (UWPG), revealing that strategic planning was more effective than unpressured within-task planning in improving oral production. Overall, the results provided important pedagogical implications and suggested useful future research directions.

کليدواژه ها

Accuracy, Complexity, Fluency, Strategic planning, Unpressured within-task planning.

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Marjan Rahim Bakhtiary , 1398 , Effects of Strategic and Unpressured Within-task Planning on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Oral Production , اولين کنفرانس بين المللي مطالعات زبان انگليسي